My responses to Jeff's tweets.
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@boomzilla said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
Stop making crappy websites.
Did he block you on twitter yet?
Can we block his Twitter on here?
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@aliceif said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
Exynos
Well, I had to admit that I was wrong about the price comparison at release.
But, I don't buy phones brand new. And so when I walked into the store, and figured the S7 did everything I wanted at half the price, that's what I got.
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@xaade said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
It's also going to be half the price.
No (it's the S8 selected there, despite how it looks)
iPhone 7:
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@xaade said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
I was wrong about the price comparison at release.
You'll be wrong about it later too.
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@loopback0 said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
@xaade said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
I was wrong about the price comparison at release.
You'll be wrong about it later too.
iPhone 7 has been released, for a while now, s8 is preorder.
I walked into the store, iPhone 7 was nearly 800, s7 was just under 500.
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@xaade No, I was talking about how @codinghorror deliberately chose the inferior version of the S8 for the list.
There is the version with the Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU (American model) and the one with the Samsung Exynos CPU (international model).
The latter has scored better in performance benchmarks.
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@loopback0 said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
You'll be wrong about it later too.
Did you include in the price the piece of your soul that Apple takes for its own?
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@xaade said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
iPhone 7 was nearly 800
There is a £799 iPhone but as it's 256GB that didn't seem the fairest comparison. It still isn't half.
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@loopback0 I'm talking dollars. The phones were comparable.
Performance for dollar at the time, the S7 was a better deal.
Besides, the larger point was that I don't NEED the performance for everything I do, other than for crappy underperforming websites.
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@boomzilla said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
Did you include in the price the piece of your soul that Apple takes for its own?
No because I give that for free.
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@aliceif said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
No, I was talking about how @codinghorror deliberately chose the inferior version of the S8 for the list.
Of course, since he's trying to prove his flawed point of view.
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@loopback0 What's a square gigabyte?
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@boomzilla said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
What's a square gigabyte?
It's what Apple called a gigabyte when they reinvented it.
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@boomzilla A GB of data downloaded using a GB of your data plan from the iCloud.
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@Yamikuronue said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
@boomzilla A GB of data downloaded using a GB of your data plan from the iCloud.
Isn't that just GB×2?
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@Dreikin But if you had 2GB^2, you'd have 2GB of data, downloaded 2 times for integrity. 3GB^2 uses 9GB of your mobile plan. It's essentially RAID-striping your downloads for integrity.
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@aliceif said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
@xaade No, I was talking about how @codinghorror deliberately chose the inferior version of the S8 for the list.
There is the version with the Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU (American model) and the one with the Samsung Exynos CPU (international model).
The latter has scored better in performance benchmarks.
Is that revenge against the US for Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.? Or just another sign the USA isn't the well developed first world country it thinks it is?
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@xaade The first tweet in that chain intrigues me:
It's like he's never actually used Slack. Or he's only used it with spammy morons, which is an issue on every communications platform.
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@RaceProUK
/me looks at SockDrawer slack
/me looks at @RaceProUK
/me looks at SockDrawer slackThat's an interesting name to call yourself and your fellow SockDevs
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@RaceProUK said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
@xaade The first tweet in that chain intrigues me:
It's like he's never actually used Slack. Or he's only used it with spammy morons, which is an issue on every communications platform.
I've never used slack but I'm interested in hearing a serious counterpoint to the "useless corporate archives" stuff (the rest of it seems obvious for a chat program).
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@xaade said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
Yes, Jeff, everyone knows how much you did to make forum software awful.
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@boomzilla said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
I'm interested in hearing a serious counterpoint to the "useless corporate archives" stuff
The search in Slack makes it about 56348971265478365483725674836278.6 times easier to find what I want compared to the same task in Sharepoint.
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@boomzilla Yes, it's IRC for web browsers, but without any of the icky nonsense that comes with IRC (no netsplit, for example), even down to the channels stuff.
Now imagine you took IRC and integrated the things we like about modern forum software - oneboxing, streaming in of content. And doing it well. (Sure, oneboxing isn't perfect but given that it relies on third party content, this is not surprising)
Now realise that you can seamlessly add files and so on just as easily as you do in a modern forum software, drag and drop or copy/paste of things works fine.
Searching works well too - you can search all the text, filtered by channel, including the text you might add when adding an image, e.g. a description of an image which becomes searchable without any extra work.
The live nature of it frequently makes it more useful as a reference than, say, Confluence or SharePoint, although some centralised documentation is always a good idea, but if you're doing rapid iteration for whatever, it's the way to go.
Then on top you can also add voice calls like with Skype - but unlike Skype you still have your archives to work with.
I really like Slack. It works well for what it does. And that's before you start integrating third party things into it which you can also do (we have integrations for our own stuff, plus StatusCake plus JIRA in our instance)
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@Arantor I'm actually more interested in knowing how Slack is different from Discord. I mean, other than which market segment they're targeting.
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@powerlord Discord has things like showing what game you're playing, and also interfaces with Steam and other things to help you find your friends on those services. On the other hand, Slack has threads that allow you to branch off into a tangent without interfering with the main flow of the channel.
There's also a difference in the voice chat: Discord has dedicated voice chat channels separate from the text chat channels, and voice chats are free, whereas Slack only allows voice chat from DMs on the free tier: to get it in channels, you need to pay. Slack's voice chat is also more like Skype (join by invite), whereas Discord's is more like Mumble (just jump right in).
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@Arantor Ah, thanks. Yes, all that sounds very similar to hipchat, to which I've heard slack compared recently, and which I use. Though I haven't actually used the search much.
@Arantor said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
The live nature of it frequently makes it more useful as a reference than, say, Confluence or SharePoint, although some centralised documentation is always a good idea, but if you're doing rapid iteration for whatever, it's the way to go.
This is basically files you share in a channel / room / chat / whatever, right? We also use Confluence. My experience with file sharing has mostly been more ephemeral stuff like screenshots or query results.
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@boomzilla yeah, Slack is more attuned to the ephemeral although history is preserved so you can look things up if you need to. Confluence et al is more for the long term stuff but the reality is that the actual information never makes it to Confluence because it's in email chains - or Slack.
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@xaade I love that he criticizes the admin for admonishing people not to respond to old topics and closing the thread.
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@xaade said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
I pretty much agree with Jeff on that one. I might up it a bit, though.
I would phrase it more like this:
"In any meeting, a maximum of five people are not having their time wasted."
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@jinpa that's exactly the sort of overly broad, flippant, superficially profound and yet ultimately nonsensical statement we love him for.
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@boomzilla said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
@jinpa that's exactly the sort of overly broad, flippant, superficially profound and yet ultimately nonsensical statement we love him for.
If that's how you describe my quote, it reinforces my suspicion that he was right most of the time in your disputes.
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@jinpa suspect better.
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@boomzilla That would make an excellent slogan for the Garage…
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@jinpa said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
If that's how you describe my quote, it reinforces my suspicion that he was right most of the time in your disputes.
Of course he was right most of the time. He's right all of the time.
And every time someone would report a bug, it wasn't a bug, they were just wrong. And if they reported too many fake bugs, they were banned.
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@jinpa said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
@boomzilla said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
@jinpa that's exactly the sort of overly broad, flippant, superficially profound and yet ultimately nonsensical statement we love him for.
If that's how you describe my quote, it reinforces my suspicion that he was right most of the time in your disputes.
You should read How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread).
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@xaade has he ever responded to you? I'd imagine you're muted and all of this is just pissing into the wind. Like, carry on if you enjoy it but don't imagine you're getting to him
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@xaade said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
Except for all the topics he deletes when they get old. What a retard.
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@Jaloopa said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
don't imagine you're getting to him
I'm not sure anyone can really "get" to him tbh...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
@Jaloopa said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
don't imagine you're getting to him
I'm not sure anyone can really "get" to him tbh...
@sam disagreed with you.
@boomzilla said in Vote of No Confidence:
There was some communication from @sam via email. I wasn't a principle in the conversation, so I won't divulge details other than to say something I think I've said (maybe not in so many words) before, which is that the friction between Jeff's style and ours lead to Jeff stressing out and making a command decision that we were PNG. It's possible that other communication happened at the Jeff / @apapadimoulis level (Alex says they're friends, after all), but I'm not privy to it.
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@Jaloopa said in My responses to Jeff's tweets.:
@xaade has he ever responded to you? I'd imagine you're muted and all of this is just pissing into the wind. Like, carry on if you enjoy it but don't imagine you're getting to him
I know I'm not.